SippinCriss

I AM AWESOME. Thanks for asking. It snowed in Victoria and the golf course was closed for a while, and once it opened it was chock full of temporary greens, so I caught up on some quality friendship/family time. It’s a little bit soul sucking to go days without playing golf, but to have world class times with world class friends is something that can make up for just about anything.

This weekend we’re going to JunoFest in Vancouver (EVEN THOUGH MATT MAYS CANCELLED… NOOOOOOO!! WHAT’S THE POINT OF EVEN LIVING MY LIFE ANYMORE WHY YOU DO IT TO US MATT AHHH OH MY FLIPPING JEBUS GOODNESS IN HEBBENZ!!!)

(credit to this beautiful and genius piece of MS Paint art goes to Kevin “KG” “Envision9″ “HGWANDIHP” Gill)

We’ll still have a good time anyways but… jeez. The weekend after that I’m headed to Edmonton to see my parents and go to an Oilers/Canucks game on Saturday night. Went to the Victoria Salmon Kings game Saturday night and they lost 7-1, on top of that the Canucks lost 5-1. Here is a highlight from said game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS6wL5Mr3Qg . Some friends from Mackenzie are going to be in Edmonton for the game too so everything is going to work out nice and we’ll all have an awesome time.

Because of these events, and also various expenses such as being alive, I had to cash out most of my Stars bankroll. I did well enough in FPP sats to have a tiny $16s bankroll for today and was off to the races with $360. In set 1 I had $24 left with 10 sng’s in play, pretty standard $344 in final 10 games to maintain a big enough bankroll to keep playing full sets. Set 2, $52.50 in play with 8 to go, avg $45/game the final 8 and sitting on $417, I figured I wouldn’t have to look back. Alas… somehow, I lost like $180 the next set and had to borrow $93.50 from Beerocrat to keep playing a full set, even worse I calculated wrong and asked for $2 less than I should have. I figure it’s impossible to ever have 2 losing sets in a row… BUT ALAS… I lose $100 again, lolz. Sigh… Oliver sends me his FTP BR ($250) and I ship it to my Stars acct and play a couple more sets, and make $480 in my last 2 sets. TOO EASY haha.

I’ve missed a few workouts and I’m only down 5 lbs for the month, hopefully I can zip off a couple and then kill it in April. Plz it to be wishing me the best of luck, and many happy returns.

My golf trainer told me today I’m only allowed to play golf 6 days a week because my body needs rest, what kind of craaaaaappp!!! :(. Not that I think he’s wrong, it’s just hard. I would submit it’s the same as telling a heroin addict not to use for a day, I’ll probably go into a brutal detox, especially once beautiful summer days come and I’m playing really well. I’m also only allowed to work out every 2nd day, for a while it was hard to get me to do it once a month, but now that I have it grooving I want to do it every day. 4 years ago when I was working as hard as I ever had at all of this, I was playing all day long and working out for 2 hrs every day, when he found out about it he was nearly mad at me, lolz. I guess I can spend that day getting paid via internet pokers.

Speaking of getting paid via internet pokers, I made a video for Stox last night of myself 4 tabling $38 sng’s and I easily went 0/4, what a stud! In one of the games I had over 5k at t150 and went bust in about 5 mins. Thems the breaks I guess, I’m certainly not going to wait until I have a crusher session to post a session, because then it gets a little bit unrealistic. I hate to say this, and I only say it because I have had nothing to do the past few days with the golf course being closed, but I actually miss playing poker. Ahhhh. I need to play a few sets immediately to get my mind right

BY THE WAY… I found out yesterday Matt Mays is playing in Vancouver 2 NIGHTS IN A ROW!!!! AHHHH, I started jumping around my living room like a 9 year old Britney Spears fan. I was kind of depressed at the thought of not seeing them until after they release their next album but there’s a large event going on in Vancouver with a bunch of good performers, so I got myself some tix yesterday for my roommate and I

http://junofest.ca

So, to sum this, and all my other blog posts up:

I like golf

I like Matt Mays

Sometimes I play poker

And an entertaining video for good measure

watch?v=oUv18zfYCHQ

Ghetto Musik - Outkast

I feel soooo good, save for waking up this morning to a load of snow outside that is. It may be the first time I’ve seen snow in March in Victoria. I was really excited to get to the course and start cruising, sadly I’ll have to wait til Wednesday since Tuesday is going to feel like -10C in the morning and -3C in the afternoon, yuck. Making it to a heated driving range would require… about 2 hours worth of driving so I’ll just leave it alone and grind out some pocer, I guess. That hurts me inside my heart, every day I miss out on practicing and playing is one more day it’s going to take me to get better.

Last night I was so tired when I got home from golf that I went to sleep at 7:30pm, I got up at about 3, realizing I had a full nights sleep, but just went back to sleep anyways, cuz pffffffff.

I’m down 5 lbs already this month!! Comfortably on pace for 15, but I guess each pound I lose is harder than the next. I don’t think I’ll hit much of a wall until I get to the 200 zone, and even then I’ll still see a steady loss, it will just go slower. By that time I guess I will have developed a certain amount of muscle, so I’m not really sure where my optimal weight is going to be but certainly it can’t be higher than 200. It feels so good to be sticking with everything, I can’t wait until I start seeing some results in the golf department.

Happy Birthday Mommy

Shot 76. if I wasn’t awesome at short putts I’d have shot 103. I have lots of work to do, up early tomorrow and at it hard k thanks bye.

Randy Jackson wears sweet outfits

No way! My friend Josh showed me this in Chilliwack last weekend. We laughed. Then we youtube’d other videos. Have you seen this site? It has a wide variety of entertaining videos. On that note, have you guys heard of Barack Obama? He was recently elected the President… first Black president!!

I went and read some Bob Rotella after my struggles and I was overwhelmed with some calm confidence, man I felt so much better. Definite great material to pass the time when I have to take 30 minute epsom salt baths after my workout. I have almost all of his books, and I am just going to keep reading them. I’ve always wanted to go down to North Carolina and spend a few days with him, costs about 2k I think. I’d really like to do that at some point in 2009. I had a lesson with Visty yesterday after my massive struggles. He says, “you’re hitting it awful.” I say, “I know!!! That’s why I’m getting a lesson right now!!!” He says, “Just hit it good.” *lightbulb pops up over head* It was so ridiculous, I just started flushing it. What kind of tip is that, and how is it supposed to work? It really made me understand an issue I often have when I start hitting it poorly, I keep trying a variety of different things that will lead to solid contact, when actually I can just get an odd sense of how to hit it solid and just do it whenever, on command. The issue is getting the ability to perform it while being unconsciously competent, as opposed to consciously competent since I prefer to think of literally nothing besides my routine and what kind of shot I want to hit - no mechanical  thoughts, not ANYTHING.  It was kind of too bad I had a round scheduled right after because I really wanted to grind it out on the range for a while, and I may have missed out since it’s snowing now?? Come on Victoria. He told me my hips aren’t moving anymore which is great news. I’m really pliable and can make changes quickly. Right now I’ve got it going back (and through) too far inside, so I’m just going to whack a bunch of balls tomorrow and keep taking vids to make sure I get it, and hopefully it just stays grooved? I like to play golf and can’t wait to get out there, please don’t make it snow tomorrow Snow Jesus.

It hasn’t been long but I feel like I’m into the groove, I worked out my last 2 (IN A ROW) and going to hit it up again, been eating healthy, up early, now all I need is to be in 5th gear with golf… I can feel it coming on OWWW OWWW AHHHWOOOOOOO!!!!

Here are some pics from this afternoon:

Not sure how I managed but I’m about 8 feet off the ground here, muscles from me and my roommate I guess.

Warning: Slipping Hazard

Misery

I hope some of you got really excited and hoped that was the Moffatt’s vid, CUZ IT WAS. Man, I had a gay day at the golf course. I needed a specific putting device to practice my stroke that I was told was there, and it was nowhere to be found, annoying! I made 60 six footers, then chipped in 5 balls and went to the range. I was super excited after yesterday to really start grooving things, and… it was so bad. I could have easily broken a few clubs. How bad is that when you get ANGRY while you PRACTICE GOLF lolz. I watch people get upset at the golf course and I’m like “lol dummy settle down” and 10 seconds later there I am throwing my club like clockwork. I bet in my golf career I’ve thrown a club and gone on to make a par or better 100+ times. When I work really hard at my attitude I can get it going ok so I conduct myself like a reasonable human being, I’ve actually been complimented on it in the past few years! I have a lesson with Visty tomorrow that I’m in desperate need of, I’m sure he’ll tell me the same thing he’ll tell me the past few lessons and I’ll get really annoyed, then hours later I’ll finally understand what he was talking about and feel a lot better. He has this way of making me use my head instead of spoon feeding it to me and it’s ANNOYING!

There’s a reality show on the golf channel where Tiger’s coach Hank Haney tries to fix Charles Barkley’s golf swing.

Charles Barkley before and after

Tiger imitating Barkley\’s swing

On the first episode Haney described Tiger’s typical day, omg:

6am-lift for 1.5 hours
Breakfast
On the practice tee by 9am. Hit balls until 11am
11-11:30-putt for a half hour
11:30-12:30-play nine
Lunch
1pm-back on practice tee until 3
3-4pm-short game
4-5-nine more holes
5-5:30-hit a few more balls
5:30-6pm-hit some more putts

Unbelievable, he didn’t say if he did it every day but I reckon if he doesn’t do it every day he does it at least 5 days a week even though he has a super model wife and 2 infant children. I am going for something similar, omg if I didn’t have to play/teach poker I’d have such a good short game!!! I actually haven’t played poker since February 8th, ship it :). One of these days I’ll have a free evening that I’ll devote to playing a few sets, hopefully it goes nice.

I taped my swing today, I’m going to save it and keep track of my progress. Now I’m going to go do my odd numbered day evening workout, hope you all have great days. Many happy returns.

It’s getting closer, but it definitely is not there. Today was a pretty good example, had a coaching session scheduled with Diego at 7 am, and I completely forgot about it and slept in til 10:30. Just a waste of the day. I got out to the golf course and worked on some good things before my round, and shot 71. It’s my best round (out of… 4) so far this year, so that’s a positive, but I felt I lost a bit of the good new feeling I had in my swing earlier in the day and yesterday. I had 2 bogeys and 1 birdie, which is typical of one of my rounds, winter seems a bit harder to make birdies what with the bumpy greens, but also easier to make pars since they’re soft. I’ll get out there tomorrow and work on just getting a bit better and accept that this process won’t happen overnight. I have to make sure I stick to the process of improving as many aspects of my game as possible.

I’m going to workout tonight, haven’t done that since… I think before Hawaii, brutal. I reckon I want to lose 10-15 lbs this month. Play and practice golf every day, workout every 2nd day, eat well, don’t drink. It’s really easy on paper. If I finish March and actually get through all of that I’d be shocked if I didn’t lose 10+. (225 right now) I’m open to any prop bets with regards to any of those things that I’ve listed.

K… tonight and tomorrow are going to be great, this song will spur us all on.

When the angels make contact - Matt Mays

Hello, hi, hello, how’s it going? That’s good. I’m good. Thanks for asking. You are really thoughtful, always thinking of others and how they’re feeling. I hit 500 balls that day, this goes out to all 3 of my readers (Hi mom!) I played 27 holes today! Besides the golf part it was pretty awesome… get it? I played pretty mediocre but I’m feeling like I’m going to be improving every day and be really good before I know it. I was like… +10 in 27 holes wow brutal. Greens are really bumpy and sucky, course is pretty soft but playing generally easy. Also, when I hit my first few balls my swing felt completely different, which is great because the time I’ve been spending practicing is obviously paying off. I still need a few thousand balls before it’s “good” but I know I’m not far off being able to score without my A+ swing.

On Thursday, Natalie, Lindon and I decided we’d go to Vancouver for the night and stay at the Fairmont (Natalie gets sweet deals, ship it). Met up with some friends downtown and had a lovely time, somehow stayed out for another night and went to a barndance in Chilliwack… what? It was one of the funnest weekends I’ve had in a long time and was worth the couple days off track it put me, memories to last a lifetime

Here’s a pic from the trip back:

Also, read this:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a299/Rancid111/1233464599960.jpg

Ummmm, here’s a song I like from today.

Neon Bible

K talk to you at some point in the very near future.